250 new emoji coming to a smartphone near you (including middle finger salute)

Emojis, the smiley faces and random objects that grace the messages of teen messaging around the world, will soon include another 250 different characters.

On Monday, the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit that regulates the coding standards for digital text, announced the introduction of 2,834 new characters to the standard, including around 250 new emoji.

The new symbols include a chili pepper, the peace dove, a dinner plate, and a likely more commonly used symbol of a a “reversed hand with middle finger extended”, more commonly known as “flipping the bird”. Yes teens will now be able to tell each other to “go f**k yourself” with a simple icon.